Thursday, May 15, 2008

If it talks like a chicken and squawks like a chicken, maybe it is a chicken

Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along . . . We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

and Barack Obama gets all huffy. One of the commenters at the latter link provided the picture and another observes that maybe Barack will sue for "definition of character".